Meaning of gross national happiness | Babel Free

Definitions

A particular indicator of a country's quality of life, developed in Bhutan in the 1970s.

uncountable

Examples

“King Jigme's goal, he says, is to increase the gross national happiness, and to that end he spends weeks traveling his Himalayan realm, in a Toyota Land Cruiser until the roads end and then on horseback or by foot, inquiring about what it would take to make people content.”

“Kannemann is working with three other U.S. universities to build a methodology that can be exported to other countries. Each country can then rank itself, as Britain will be doing, on a scale of gross national happiness.”

“The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan introduced a policy of Gross National Happiness more than twenty years ago.”

CEFR level